The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

which runs to the summit OF the Ande
near Lima. Perue. has already cost tn
Government $25, 900, 000
President Diaz has shown specia
favors to Dr., Mathilde Montoya, tn
first woman to become regular prac
ticine physicians in Mexico
The Austro- Hungarian regulars
ard militia are to be supplied will
Manlichor repeating rifles by 1891.
The number required will be 1900.
O00, and the cost will be 43, 900, O0C
forms. 1t will take the empire tel
years to pay for the weapons.
In the city Of Mexico every body
lives over shop, if the house be two
stories. or uses the lower floor fol
stabling the horses, quarering the
servants. etc. Even the millionaires
often rent The ground floor of theil
swell residences for business purposes.
The English oo-operatives co have q
bank whose transactions amount to
$50 900, 900 " year, They have l., 400
stores, and do business of $3.50, O0O,-
OU0 year. Their 900 900 members re-
celye an annual profit of $l5 0)0 900.
Their profits during the past twenty
four years have so 900, 00).
There is firm in Berlin that em-
plays two hundred girls who manufact-
ure little bundles of antiseptic dressing
material, with which all German SOL
dier5 are TO be supplied in future, so
that they may be able to dress their
own wounds in the absence of a surgeon.
The girls are all dressed in white linen
coaks and are strictly forbidden to
bring yictual, or any ding else into
the 70 N where they work.
The results of the survey and last
census of India are that the area of
the Peninsula of Hndostan is 1882, :
62i aquarc miles, and the population
253 s9l 62l. Although immense tracts
Of country are annually cultivated. ac-
Cording 10 the most recent survey TO-
900, 900 acres of land, suitable for cul-
tlvation, have not as yet been plowed.
Al the same time, 120 000 900 of acres
are returned as waste land. Public
OpiDtOs.
The Botanic Garden at Oxford is
celebrate for its collection of aquatic
plants. The colored water lilies are
especially handsome this year, includ-
ing The blue water lily from the Nile
and the red water lily from the Ganges.
The former opens in the day time. but
the latter theu remains closed, open
ing at night 1T is a pity says a
recent visitor to the garden, "that
these floral peacocks do not show their
tails together IN Y Ledqer.
-Amesicau newspapers are read
here now much more that they former
ly were, and the Mexican people are
becoming somewhat familiar with
affairs in the United States. Still it is
3 deplorable fact that the American
and Mexican people h1ow less about
each other than they do about the
principal nations of Europe, whereas
the very contiguity Of their respective
territories make it desirable and
almost necessary that the reverse
should be the case. Tile 1'wo Repub.
lies, Guy Of Merico.
-Tolstoi says there are three kinds
of love in Rnssia-elcgant love, de.
voted love and active love. Elegant
love is ~fned feeling of which one
does not care to speak in a common
way. and so it is customary to speak
of it only in French. Says he: 'lt is
an absurd and grotesque thing to say,
but ! am convinced that there have
been and are-in certain circle
many persons, especially women, in
whom the love they feel for friends, |
husbands and children would cease the
moment il was forbidden to be ex.
pressed in French"
BIZ Horace Rumbold, formerly |
British Minister to the Argentine Re-
public, has written a work on that part
OF South America, in which he saws
that bird life on the pampas, or South
American prairies, is so abundant a.
to produce the effect of an open-air
aviary. Brilliant little creatures.
with REQ OF yellow breasts, cardinals
magpIes and ovcn-birds dart in and
out 81 the grass and bushes in every
while in the higher regions
numerous hawks and kites hover
0mnous.y over these tempting pre-
serves All are fearless in the pres
ence OF man, except the spur-winged
1Iover, an unfortunate bird, much dis
ikcd, and described as the spy and
'c"ld Of the pampas. 1t has a hand
.ome, glossy plumage of lavender and
black, and shrill. discordant voice.
WIN which it pursues the sportsman,
'r'ghHnine away game. - N Y.